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"Fred Mercer, Co. B, 69th Sig. Bn., XX Corps, 3rd Army" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Fred Mercer poses between two Army jeeps. A large group of American troops are gathered behind the jeeps. Numbered 116 on the reverse.
General Eisenhower watches survivors demonstrate how they were tortured [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Caption text from separate sheet: "Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, watches grimly while occupants of a German concentration camp at Gotha demonstrate how they were tortured by the Nazi sadists operating the camp. …
The entrance to Mauthausen with a banner reading "...Espanoles Antifacitas... Saludan a las Fuerzas Liberadoras..."
Content Note: The banners hang from the top of the wall. It reads "The Spanish Anti-Fascists Salute the Liberating Forces" and was hung after the Second Armored Division of the Third Army liberated the camp. The main doors to the camp are closed. …
Three young survivors standing behind a barbed wire fence [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Third Army exposes horror of Buchenwald camp. Liberated inmates of Buchenwald, injured and emaciated, are pictured behind barbed wire fence enclosing the area. Many mature prisoners looked like youths…
Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Exhibit of souvenirs made up by the Nazis at Buchenwald, seized by Gen. Patton's Third Army. German civilians are brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads, left, parts of organs of victims who…
John Glustrom, Dennis Wile, and Dr. Leo Pine interview
Content Note: Transcript of a "Witness to the Holocaust" television series interview (6/4/79). The interview was transcribed as part of the International Liberators Conference. Pine served with the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, Glustrom served…
Harold Ayers interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Ayers served as a first lieutenant in a medical unit and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Place of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
Howard Wiseburg interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Wiseburg served as staff sergeant with the 65th [Infantry] Division and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Cohasset, Massachusetts.
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Bert Weston interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Weston served with the 30th Field Hospital, 20th Corps, 3rd Army, and witnessed the liberation of Ebensee. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
Haiden G. Turner interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Haiden G. Turner served with the 30th Special Services Company, 20th Corps of the 3rd Army as a captain and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Avondale Estates, Georgia.